Grégoire Polet (15 April 1978,
Uccle
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) is a Belgian writer and poet.
Biography
Also a translator, Grégoire is a Doctor of Arts of the
Université catholique de Louvain
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, specializing in
Spanish literature
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. He is now a full-time writer and lives in Barcelona. For his inspiration he often found himself in the cities that concerned his history: when he wrote ''Madrid ne dort pas'', his first book, he rented an apartment in Madrid. The same goes for ''Chucho'' whose action takes place in Barcelona.
At Lycée Martin V in
Louvain-la-Neuve
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(Belgium), he was fellow with writer . Their novels manifestly maintain close relations: often choral novels, written in the present of the indicative, very numerous and recurring characters from one book to another, always staged in urban areas (Paris, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Prague, Barcelona, etc.), with a predilection for the representation of the simultaneity of destinies in an urban context.
Works
Novels
*2005: ''Madrid ne dort pas'',
Éditions Gallimard
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Founded by Ga ...
, 2005.
*2006: ''Excusez les fautes du copiste'', Gallimard, 2006. Prix spécial Écrivain de la Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère.
*2008: ''Leurs vies éclatantes'', Gallimard, prix ''Indications'' du jeune critique 2008 (ex aequo with , for ''Ma robe n'est pas froissée'', éd. Les Impressions nouvelles).
Prix Fénéon
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2007. Prix Grand-Chosier 2007. Novel niminated in the first selection of
prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...
2007.
*2009: ''Chucho'', Gallimard, prix Sander Pierron of the
.
*2010: ''Petit éloge de la gourmandise'', collection folio
*2012: ''Les Ballons d'hélium'', Gallimard
*2015: ''Barcelona!'', Gallimard,
prix Amerigo-Vespucci
The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. It rewards works on the theme of adventure and travel and refers to the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
Featuring 250 ...
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Translations
*2007: Juan Valera, ''Pepita Jiménez'' (Translation and foreword by Grégoire Polet), Geneva, Editions Zoé
References
External links
Grégoire Polet
on Babelio
''Avec Grégoire Polet, Barcelone ne dort jamais''
on ''Le Figaro
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'' (19 February 2015)
Grégoire Polet
on France Inter
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''Barcelona ! Grégoire Polet''
on La Cause littéraire (23 February 2015)
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Belgian writers in French
21st-century Belgian writers
Université catholique de Louvain alumni
Prix Fénéon winners
1978 births
People from Uccle
Living people
